Database Search Tips and Tricks THE BASICS   

spell all words correctly don’t capitalize proper nouns don’t use punctuation

KEYWORD SEARCHING   

important words found within the title, summary, or text use synonyms; EX: sports : altheltic, game, casual, informal, outdoor, sporting is your term a broad term, narrow term, or related term ex: if the term is soccer broad term: ball games or sports narrow term: professional women’s soccer related term: football coaches

TRUNCTATION   

add an asterisk (*) to the end of word will give you a variety of the root word with different endings or spellings ex: gene*- genes, genetic, genetics, genetically OR ex: librar*- library, libraries, librarianship, interlibrary, intralibrary

QUOTATION MARKS  

use “quotation marks” restricts your search to the words within the quotation marks ex: “human trafficking” will only search for these words when they are linked together

BOOLEAN OPERATORS (or, and, not)    

connect search terms together OR used between your search terms will show you results with at least of one the terms o ex: “global warming” OR “greenhouse effect” AND used between your search terms will show only results with both terms o ex: diet AND cancer NOT used between your search terms will cause the database to exclude the word after “NOT” o ex: diet NOTcancer

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Database Search Tips and Tricks

Database Search Tips and Tricks. THE BASICS. • spell all words correctly. • don't capitalize proper nouns. • don't use punctuation. KEYWORD SEARCHING.

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